Kirch, Patrick Vinton

Prehistory and ecology in a windward Hawaiian valley
1975

Summary: Patrick Vinton Kirch is an American archaeologist and Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology and the Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the former Curator of Oceanic Archaeology in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and director of that museum from 1999 to 2002. Currently, he is professor in the department of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i Manoa, and a member of the board of directors of the Bishop Museum. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Born: 1950 [2]; 1950-07-07 [4]
Birth Place: Honolulu [2]; Honolulu, Hawaii [4]
Country: United States [4]
Language: English [5]
Occupation: anthropologist [2]; archaeologist [2]; biologist [2]; university teacher [2]; ethnobotanist [2]
Employer: University of California, Berkeley [2][2]; University of Washington [2]; University of Hawaiʻi System [2]; Bishop Museum [2]
Educated at: Punahou School [2]; Yale University [2]; University of Pennsylvania [2]
Country of Education: United States [2]
CV Url: CV Url [2]
Yale LUX: Entity [2]

Sources: 1. National Library of Korea; 2. Wikidata; 3. VIAF; 4. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 5. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 6. Library of Congress

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